November 15, 2022

Ukraine Defense Ministry

Ukraine Defense Ministry

Russian forces have launched a massive missile attack across the country on the military and civilian infrastructure, using about 100 missiles.

Russian forces were conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka directions.

Ukraine has always been a leader in peacemaking efforts; if Russia wants to end this war, let it prove it with actions – speech by the President of Ukraine at the G20 Summit.

Indirect losses in Ukrainian agriculture due to the war reach $ 34.25 billion, direct losses in Ukrainian agriculture due to the war reached $ 6.6 billion.

The two-hundred-sixty-fifth (265) day of the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the russian military large-scale invasion continues.

The russian occupiers are trying to keep the temporarily captured territories, are concentrating their efforts on restraining the actions of the Defence Forces of Ukraine in certain areas, and are continuing to equip defensive lines on the left bank of the Dnieper. At the same time, the enemy is conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Novopavlivka directions.

During this day, the enemy launched a massive missile attack on the military and civilian infrastructure of several regions of Ukraine. The results of the Air Defense Forces of Ukraine and the consequences of enemy attacks on critical infrastructure facilities are currently being clarified. In addition, the occupiers do not stop shelling the positions of our troops and settlements along the contact line.

The situation in the Volyn and Polissya directions has not changed significantly. The republic of belarus continues to support the armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine, providing it with infrastructure, territory and airspace. The threat of the enemy launching missile and air strikes from the territory and airspace of the republic of belarus remains.

The enemy shelled in other directions:

in the Siversky direction – from barrel artillery, in the areas of Ryzhivka, Kindrativka, Slavhorod settlements of the Sumy oblast;

in the Slobozhansk direction – from mortars, barrel and rocket artillery, in the areas of Stariysa and Bochkove settlements;

in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions – from the entire variety of artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Nevske, Kyslivka, Rozdolivka, Ploshanka, Makiivka, Spirne;

in the Bakhmut direction – from tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery in the areas of the settlements of Bakhmut, Bilohorivka and New York;

in the Avdiyivka direction – from artillery of various types, in the areas of settlements of Novomykhailivka, Vodyane and Nevelske;

in the Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhya directions – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the areas of the settlements of Prechystivka, Pavlivka, Vremivka, Zaliznychne, Stepnohirsk, Mali Shcherbaky;

in the Kherson direction – from mortars, barrel and jet artillery, in the area of the settlement of Dobra Nadiya.

Ukraine General Staff: 

Ukraine forces ‘killed 710 Russian soldiers’ in 24 hour period

The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 15.11 were approximately:

personnel ‒ about 82080 (+710) persons were liquidated,

tanks ‒ 2861 (+13),

APV ‒ 5773 (+25),

artillery systems – 1850 (+11),

MLRS – 393 (+0),

Anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 208 (+2),

aircraft – 278 (+0),

helicopters – 261 (+0),

UAV operational-tactical level – 1511 (+2),

cruise missiles ‒ 399 (+0),

warships / boats ‒ 16 (+0),

vehicles and fuel tanks – 4351 (+35),

special equipment ‒ 160 (+0).

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